Whetstone, Derby Whetstone, Leicester Whibheath-Yields, Worcester Whigston (Magna), Leicester Whinberg, Norfolk Whinfell, Westmoreland Whinny-Hill, Northumberland Whishaw with Moxhall, Warwick Whiston, Northampton Whiston, York Whistou, Stafford Whiston, Stafford Whitacre (Nether), Warwick Whitacre (Over), Warwick Whitbourne, Hereford Whitbarn, Durham Whitby, York Whitby, Cheshire Whitchester, Northumberland Whitchurch, Bucks Whitchurch, Glamorgan Whitchurch, Hants Whitchurch, Hereford Whitchurch, Oxon Whitchurch, Pembroke Whitchurch, Salop Whitchurch, Somerset Whitchurch, Warwick Whitcliff, York Whitcombe, Dorset Whitcombe-Magna, Gloucester Whitechurch, Devon Whitechurch, Pembroke Whitechurch Canonicorum, Dorset Whixhall, Salop Whitfield, Northampton Whitfeld, Derby Whitfield, Kent Whitfield, Northumberland umberland Whorlton, York Whixley, York Whixoe, Suffolk Wibtoft, Warwick Wichaugh, Cheshire Wicklewood, Norfolk Widdrington, Northumberland Widford, Essex Wigborough (Great), Essex Wiggesley, Notts Wigginton, Oxon Wigginton, York Wigginton, Herts Wigginthorpe, York Wiggonby, Cumberland Wigston (Little), Leicester Wigtoft, Lincoln Wigton, York Whitefield, Gloucester Whitford, Flint Whitford-Garn, Flint Whitgift, York Whitegate, Cheshire Whitgreave, Stafford Whitehaven, Cumberland Whitkirk, York White-Lady-Aston, Worcester Whitmore, Stafford White-Parish, Wilts Whitlingham, Norfolk Whitnash, Warwick Whitnell, Somerset Whitrey, Devon Whiteside, Northumberland Whitney, Hereford Whitrey, Devon Whit-Staunton, Somerset White-Waltham, Berks Whitstone, Devon Whittering, Northampton Whittingham, Northumberland Whorlton (East and West), North- Wilbarton, Northampton Wiehenford, Worcester Wichnor, Stafford Wick, Gloucester Wick (St. Lawrence), Somerset Wick, Glamorgan Wick-Episcopi, Worcester Wick-near-Pershore, Worcester Wickham-Market, Suffolk Wickhampton, Norfolk Wickham (St. Pauls), Ess Wickhambrook, Suffolk Wilberfoss, York Wilboar-Clough, Cheshire Wilbraham (Great), Cambridge Wilbraham (Little), Cambridge Wilburton, Cambridge Wilby, Suffolk Wilby, Northampton Wilby, Norfolk Wilcote, Oxon Wild, Dorset Willaston, Cheshire Willen, Bucks Willenhall, Stafford Willenhall, Warwick Willerby, York Willerby, York Willersley, Gloucester Willersley, Hereford Willesborough, Kent Willesley, Derby Willey, Warwick Willey, Hereford k Winkton, Hants Winlaton, Durham Winmarleigh, Lancaster Winstone, Gloucester Winterborne-Abbas, Dorset Winterborne-Came, Dorset Winterborne-Clenstone, Dorset Winterborne-Farringdon, Dorset Winterborne-Kingston, Dorset Wimborne (St. Giles and All-Winterborne-St.-Martin, Dorset Hallows), Dorset Wimborne Minster, Dorset Wimpole, Cambridge Wimpstone, Warwick Wincanton, Somerset Winchfield, Hants Winchelsea, Sussex Winchendon (Nether), Bucks Winterborne-Monkton, Dorset Winterborne-Whitechurch, Dorset Winterborne-Lestone, Dorset Winterbourne-Stoke, Wilts Winterbourne, Gloucester Winterbourn, Berks Winterburn, York Winteringham, Lincoln Winterton, Norfolk Winterslow (East and West), Wilts Wintersett, York Winton, Westmoreland Wisley, Surrey Wispington, Lincoln Wistaston, Cheshire Wiston, Pembroke Wiston, or Wissington, Suffolk Wistow, Huntingdon Wistow, York Wistow, Leicester Witchingham (Little, or St. Faith), Witchingham (Great), Norfolk Witham (South), Lincoln Witherslack, Westmoreland Withington (Old), Cheshire Withington (Lower), Cheshire Withington, Gloucester Withington, Hereford Withington, Lancaster Withington, Salop Withybrook with Hopsford, War- wick Withycombe, Somerset Withycombe-Rawleigh, Devon Wittenham (Little), Berks Wittenham (Long), Berks Wittersham, Kent Wittering (East), Sussex Witton with Twambrook, Cheshire Woodeaton, Stafford. Witton, Huntingdon Witton (East), York Witton (West), York Witton, Lancaster Witton, Norfolk Witton-Shiels, Northumberland Wiveliscombe, Somerset Woodend, Northampton Woodford, Northampton Woodland and Heathwaite, Lan- caster Wooley, Stafford Woolstone with Martinscroft, Lan- cashire Woolston, Somerset Woolton (Little), Lancashire Wooperton, Northumberland Woore, Salop Wootton, Berks Wootton-Newland, Dorset Wootton-Glanville, Dorset Wootton-Fitzpain, Dorset Wootton-under-Edge, Gloucester Wootton (St. Lawrence), Hants Wootton, Lincoln Wootton (North), Norfolk Wooton. See Hisland, Salop Wooton (North), Somerset Wootton, Beds Wootton-under-Wood, Bucks Wootton (South), Norfolk Word or Worth, Kent Wordwell, Suffolk Worfield, Salop Workington, Cumberland Worksop, Notts Worldham (East), Hants Wormbridge, Hereford Wormegay, Norfolk Wormhill, Derby Wormingford, Essex Worminghall, Bucks Wormington, Gloucester Wormley, Herts Wormleighton, Warwick West), Worplesdon, Surrey Woolsington, Northumberland Worsall (High), York COBBETT'S GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. BEDFORDSHIRE. AN INLAND COUNTY of England, bounded on the North by Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire, on the East by Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, on the South by Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, and on the West by Buckinghamshire. It is in an irregular somewhat oval form, and is about 34 miles long and 19 broad. The area, or superficial measure, of it, is 463 square miles, or 296,320 statute acres. The country is generally level, and the land very good : a large proportion is pasture land; but the arable is, on an average, much better than that of the average of England; and some part of it is finer, it is supposed, than any other land in England. It is sufficiently wooded, is rich in pasture and in all sorts of cattle and agricultural produce, and has very little waste or poor land.-It has no large manufactories; but a part of the women and children are employed in the making of lace and of straw-plat; though these are not in amount sufficient to prevent us from calling this a purely agricultural county. Its RIVERS are the Ouse and the Ivel, the former of which divides the county into two parts, and is navigable as far as the borough of Bedford, which is the capital of the county.-The PRODUCTS of Bedfordshire are, corn, meat of all sorts in very great abundance, butter; and all of the finest quality.-This county is in the PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY; in the DIOCESE OF LINCOLN, and in the NORFOLK CIRCUIT.-It is divided into nine hundreds; namely, Barford, Biggleswade, Clifton, Flitt, Manshead, Red bornestoke, Stodden, Willey, Wixham. tree. There are 131 PARISHES and TOWNSHIPS, and with distinct parochial jurisdiction; and 10 MARKET-TOWNS; namely, Ampthill, Bedford, Biggleswade, Dunstable, Harrold, Luton, Leighton Buzzard, Potton, Shefford, Woburn. Bedford town sends 2 members to parliament; and its 2 members, with the 2 for the county, are all that this county is permitted to send.--Before the Protestant "Reformation," or devastation, there were 18 monastic establishments at the following places: Bedford, Biggleswade, Bissemede, Caldwell, Chicksand, Dunstable, Eaton-Socon, Elstow, Farle, Grovesbury, Harwood, Melchbourn, Market Street, Newenham, Northill, Warden, Woburn; under the names of which places a particular account of these establishments is given.— There are 24 PUBLIC CHARITIES in this County, mostly very ancient. Of the 131 PARISHES which the county contains, there are 6 which have less than 100 inhabitants each; 10 which have no parsonage houses; 39 which have parsonage houses, which, in a return inade to parliament in 1818, the incumbents represent as unfit for them to live in; and, in the whole county, there are 124 churches; there being 7 parishes and townships with no churches. The poor-rates of the county amounted annually, agreeably to a return made to parliament in 1818, to 80,638l. 18.54d.; the number of PAUPERS was 7,030; the ANNUAL RENTAL of all the real property of the county amounted to 343,682l. 19s. B |